Any Step By Step Guides to Updating Smarty PHP Framework?

Question

Trying to fathom out how to update smarty php framework from 3.11 to current 3.21

Can anyone suggest where to find a detailed guide for a dummy or list step by step here? Ive searched just about everywhere.

Yes i understand 3.22 arrives shortly (2 weeks) and will come as standard set for HHVM this being why i want to resolve any issues now in the current update before tackling any when 3.22 arrives.

Thanks

Answer 1

Updating Smarty from version 3.xx to 3.yy is usually not very difficult, its nothing like the big upgrade from 2.xx (but they've written a guide for that....). Just replace your Smarty installation directory with the one from of the newer installation.

Just for safety reasons, I usually do it like this in my development enviroments.

Directory structure:

./Smarty/     <- Symlink to ./Smarty-3.1.12/
./Smarty-3.1.12/
./Smarty-3.1.13/

Your php-scripts include Smarty like this:

require('./Smarty/libs/Smarty.class.php');

For an update just copy the newer version into a new folder and change the symlink to show to the new folder.

rm Smarty 
ln -s Smarty-3.1.13 Smarty

If you run into issues, just switch the symlink back to the old installation until solving the issues.

You might have to empty your /templates_c/ -directory, too, in some cases.